Farmer interest group

A producer company is the hybrid between a private limited company and a co-operative society. It combines benefits of professional management of former and welfare consideration of the latter (NABARD, 2015).

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A study was conducted in Navsari district of South Gujarat to know the level of information seeking behaviour of animal enterprise holders of FIGs. A sample of 120 FIGs members was selected for the study. This study revealed that majority (84.17 per cent) of the FIGs members had medium level of information seeking behaviour followed by those with lower level (14.17 per cent) and higher level (1.67 per cent) information seeking behaviour.

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In this backdrop the study was conducted in Anekal taluk of Bengaluru urban district of Karnataka during 2019, in order to study the perception of the members of the FIG towards it functioning.

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The present study was carried out at SainaNehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training and Education, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana) during 2016-17. Response of the trainees was evaluated on the basis of gender, age, educational status, occupation and adoption of bee keeping as an entrepreneurship. Majority of respondents (96%) were male; belonged to young age group (72%), having education level up to matriculation (47%) and farming as an occupation (51%).

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The study was informed by Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory by Rogers. Mixed methods approach with a bias towards qualitative method was used for data collection. SPSS data analysis software was used for data analysis. Farmers would prefer a more personalized extension service as opposed to the practiced Common Interest Groups Service.77.1%.

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Farmers have several general concerns about crop insurance voiced by national farm organizations representing a cross-section of American agriculture. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and others would like USDA to address shallow losses, which occur when losses are significant for the farmer but not enough to trigger an indemnity. 31 Also, this group and others point out a need to address declines in actual production history (APH), which is used for determining the insurance guarantee.

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Over the next 10 years, federal spending on crop insurance is projected to outpace spending on traditional commodity programs by about one-third, which might capture the attention of budget cutters looking for potential sources of savings. Insurance companies, farm groups, and some members of Congress are concerned that additional reductions in federal support will negatively impact the financial health of the crop insurance industry and possibly jeopardize the delivery of crop insurance.

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many groups and individuals have been motivated to consider the potential for producing ethanol. Across the country, farmer cooperatives, rural development coalitions, bio-energy advocates and others have gathered to explore the process and prospects for developing ethanol production facilities. In many cases these efforts have resulted in the successful development of ethanol plants.

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Training related to all levels of management, including senior DARD and GRRC administrators and scientists, DARD and the GRRC technicians and extension workers, communal leaders as well as farmers. Two groups of farmers were trained, who farms the new technology has been applied, and farmers from outside the project to be interested to learn more about goats and apply new technologies to farm his.

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This paper examines the incentives and disincentives for the adoption of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) by farmers and by downstream handlers of farm outputs in developing countries. GAPs cover a diverse set of objectives and have been developed by a wide array of interest groups from private supply chain-driven systems tied to individual retailers, and industry-wide systems driven by retailer or producer associations, to programmes developed within national policy frameworks or promoted by international agencies....

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